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Hello, my name is Limor Rosenthal, I am a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist. I am experienced in relationship issues, parenting issues, co-dependency, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, and childhood trauma. If you are facing any of these challenges as your therapist, I will help you gain insight, and provide you with the support and the tools to overcome these challenges.
My approach
I utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and Solution Focused Therapy to help identify patterns of thoughts that influence feelings and behaviors. I educate and present different perspectives, I implement positive self-talk, and provide tools to reduce symptoms of moods and behaviors. Additionally, I use psychodynamic to explore and identify how events in childhood influence personalities and core beliefs as adults.
My focus
I provide therapy services to individual adults ages 21 to 80 years of age. I treat clients dealing with relationship issues, parent-child relationships, parenting issues, divorce, midlife changes, co-dependency, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, empty nesters, and childhood trauma.
My communication style
I try to create a safe space for clients to openly share their thoughts and feelings. My main goal is to develop a trusting working relationship with my clients by validating their emotions and feelings. Clients working with me feel heard and not Judged.
My journey to mental healthcare
Throughout my life, I often had people come to me and tell me their problems. I found that I enjoyed listening and helping them. As a teenager, my friends used to call me, "Dear Abby Jr." for that reason. Originally, I worked in the business field. However, I never felt happy, or fulfilled. I used to pick up psychology books and read for my own interests. One day my boss said to me, "Limor, you missed your calling, you should have gone into psychology." That was when I decided to go to graduate school for clinical psychology. After I graduated, I began working at the Department of Children and Family Services for 14 and ½ years, where I investigated referrals alleging child abuse and neglect. In 2021 I worked as a mediator for Los Angeles Superior Court. I mediated child custody conflict in cases of separation or divorce, with some being domestic violence cases. Even though I used my clinical skills there and at my previous position with DCFS I did not really do therapy. I did a bit of therapy on the side, and I realized that I am more passionate about providing therapy. I also realized that this pandemic had a great impact on people’s mental health and there is a greater need for support. For this reason, I decided to focus only on doing therapy, and I feel this was the best decision that I have made.
My goals for you
At the first session with clients, I explain the therapy process. I ask my clients what they are looking to get out of therapy, and we then discuss long-term goals and short-term goals. We come up with a treatment plan and I check periodically (after a few sessions) for progress. We may add to the goals if other issues are disclosed later in time.
My first session with you
First session is an intake. I ask what brought them to therapy/why are they seeking therapy today? I ask about Symptoms and behaviors, when did they start, how often they experience symptoms? I ask about current stressors, do a risk assessment to see where they are emotionally, mentally. I ask about family of origin, mental health history, family mental health, substance abuse. I then provide a brief explanation of therapy process, talk about confidentiality and limits of confidentiality. Discuss goals and treatment plan.
